5. Four Levels of Physician Well-Being with Harjot Singh MD

Oftentimes, the terms wellness and well-being are used interchangeably.  Is there a significant difference especially in the context of physician burnout?

This is expounded by Dr. Harjot Singh, a physician wellness and burnout prevention coach.  He is Assistant Medical Director in Kingsview Tele-Psychiatry services in California, a Fellow of American Psychiatric Association, and one of our coaches at TheHappyMD.com.  He shares with us his four-level system of wellbeing, namely succumbing, surviving, existing, and thriving.  Tune in on today’s episode to learn more.

“Well-being is not just this weird positive thing all the time, take for example a busy life of a physician.  Every day we have a chance to do good. It's almost like we have to travel to any place else, to have that sense I did good today.”

- Dr. Harjot Singh

Highlights:

• (01:28)  The difference between wellness and well-being
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• (02:12)  The science of well-being
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• (04:00) Two types of well-being
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• (04:47) The four-part scale
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• (06:35) The jangle effect
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• (12:23) Flow as a psychological concept
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• (16:05) The role of vision on well-being

Resources:

• WHO article on mental health:  https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-health-strengthening-our-response
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• University of Rochester articles on Burnout: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/23096820-michael-r-privitera/publications
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• The Jangle Fallacy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001316445401400214?journalCode=epma

Connect with Dr. Harjot Singh:

TheHappyMD.com

Linkedin 

HarjotSinghMD.com

Watch this episode:

Youtube:  https://youtu.be/rDcJCNPnvOc

Get to know more about Dr. Dike Drummond and The Happy MD:

https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond

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